Chairman Mao

I always believed that China has produced great people who shared their thoughts to build the world history. Among them is the author of the controversial Red Book of Mao. Revolutionary chairman Mao Zedong is the leader and founder of the People's Republic of China.

As a Communist and a political theoretician, his remarkable ideas on guerilla warfare became a strong influence to other Communist countries and Third World revolutionaries. He became chairman of the established Soviet Republic of China in 1931. He also created the Red Army, who served like Presidential guards today in that same year.

In 1954, he was elected chairman of the new People's Republic of China. He conjured the idea of the protracted war which refers to long and unending battle of the peasants against capitalist countries. Mao initiated the economic strategy of reviving all sectors of China.

This economic plan which was dubbed as the Great Leap Forward focused on a decentralized, rigorous industrialization of manufacturing steel. He wanted China to be among the biggest steel producers in Asia. That time, all metallic equipment of the Chinese people were donated to the government for the construction of more steel.

Work centered on steel production abandoning the agricultural industry that the country used to have. Because no one was left to plow the Chinese fields, though there was an increase in metal production, China suffered from mass starvation. Great Leap Forward was changed to the Great Famine.

If my memory serves me right, it was noted that because of their hunger and scarcity of food, they resorted to eating fresh but buried human cadavers.

Though Mao was among the greatest revolutionary leaders, he was never a good economist, and because of the Great famine, he was ousted and turned the administration to Liu Shaoqi. Today, Mao is still adored by many militant groups and members of the guerilla.

They still follow his teachings and philosophies.